Posted in On This Day, tagged cleveland county nc, clyde hoey, johnson d mccall, nc politics, shelby nc on November 24, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1919: Clyde Hoey, a member of the “Shelby Dynasty” of Democratic politicians, wins the congressional primary against Johnson D. McCall of Charlotte. Hoey carries his home county of Cleveland by the vote of 3,369 to 34. Even more remarkably, he receives every one of the 1,242 votes cast in Shelby. Hoey […]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged brown vs board of education, clyde hoey, defending white democracy, jason morgan ward, nc segregationists, sam ervin, william umstead on March 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Weeks after the Brown [vs. Board of Education decision in 1954], the press hailed the latest poster boy for the ‘soft Southern approach’…. Samuel J. Ervin, a Harvard-educated state Supreme Court justice, arrived in Washington ready to lend his legal expertise and ‘country lawyer’ charm to the segregationist cause. “Governor William Umstead tapped Ervin to […]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged chain gangs, clyde hoey, dorothea lange, harry truman, lewis hine, mount airy nc, mount olive nc, mount toxaway nc, petersburg nc, pitt county nc, sapphire nc, shorpy.com on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s speculation over the identity of Clyde Hoey (and a camera-shy Harry Truman?) brought to mind shorpy.com, “a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s” (’60s, actually). Some are familiar (Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange), but others may surprise. Some North Carolina examples: — Petersburg provost marshal’s office, 1864 […]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged clyde hoey, joe mccarthy, u.s. senate on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“During the early 1950s [the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations] had been chaired by Senator Clyde Hoey, a mild-mannered Democrat from North Carolina. Under Hoey’s leadership the subcommittee had investigated such bland subjects as… the reorganization of the Bureau of Customs. [Joe] McCarthy, the ranking Republican, had attended fewer than […]
